PGP Desktop 10.0.x - Resolved Issues

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Resolved an issue where PGP Desktop for Windows would not work if the My Documents folder had been moved to a custom location. [26172]

Clicking Deny on an invalid certificate dialog now cancels enrollment as expected on PGP Desktop for Mac OS X. [26540]

PGP Keys

Improved compatibility with older PGP Keys. [25732]

Resolved an issue where PGP Desktop would crash when uploading a new key to the Global Directory in certain circumstances. [26419]

Resolved an issue where imported key files were rejected during enrollment. [26335]

PGP Messaging

Improvements made to smart card/token handling when the user's PIN is not required to send email. [25139]

When configuring a secure SMTP messaging service in PGP Desktop, STARTTLS now works properly for secure transmission of login credentials. [26399]

When PGP Desktop is installed on PGP Desktop for Windows systems running Symantec Enterprise Vault Client, all email messages in the Microsoft Office Draft folder are no longer sent when replying to or forwarding an archived email message. [24974]

Resolved an issue where the PGP MAPI Proxy in PGP Desktop for Windows would fail to decode messages when Symantec Enterprise Vault 2007 was also installed on the system. [25490]

Improved interoperability between the PGP Email Proxy and the Thunderbird mail client [26745]

PGP NetShare

Added support for a Windows Registry DWORD value that will disable DFS path matching in PGP NetShare encrypted DFS file shares. To disable DFS path matching, add the following registry DWORD and set the value to 0: [26965] \\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\PGP Corporation\PGP\NetShareDfsMatching

PGP NetShare DLLs will no longer be registered in the system if the PGP_INSTALL_NETSHARE=0 option is used in the command line using msiexec.exe to install PGP Desktop. [23267]

Resolved the issue where saving Microsoft Office documents to a remote PGP NetShare-protected share could cause the Office application to hang. [26314]

Enhanced PGP NetShare encryption operations so that they no longer entirely abort when encountering common errors. [26129]

Improved the overall performance of PGP NetShare. [26099, 26312]

PGP Portable

Resolved an issue in PGP Portable where copying large directories containing multiple files and folders could fail if a certain specific file name creation pattern was used. [26229]

PGP Portable creation no longer fails when the next available drive letter is in use. [25667]

PGP Viewer

PGP Viewer can now successfully open and decrypt .gpg messages. [25885]

Resolved the issue where PGP WDE-encrypted systems with multiple CPUs would encounter a blue screen error when under heavy load. [27027]

Resolved the issue so that PGP Desktop no longer installs the PGP WDE driver if PGP WDE is specifically omitted when using the msiexec.exe command to install PGP Desktop for Windows. [26989]

Added support for multiple advanced preferences that allow for additional customizations to the PGP WDE Bootguard screen. The new preferences are bgStaticUpperTextEnabled, bgStaticLowerTextEnabled, bgStaticTitleTextEnabled, and bgAdvancedInfoTextEnabled. [19849]

Resolved an issue where Japanese systems encrypted by PGP WDE would have the ? character in place of all KANJI in the PGP BootGuard screen. [26909]

Resolved an issue where certain supported languages such as Slovak could not be set as the keyboard language for PGP WDE. [27785]

Added support for an advanced preference that suppresses the auto-encrypt functionality in PGP WDE for Windows after a boot disk has been fully decrypted after enrollment. To enable auto-encrypt boot disk suppression, set noAutoEncryptAfterSetupAssistant as a Boolean value to true. [26441]

PGP Desktop 10.0.2

PGP Whole Disk Encryption

Resolved an issue with PGP Desktop version 10.0.0/10.0.1 for Mac OS X. Upgrading to that release on a system encrypted with PGP Desktop 9.10/9.12 and then subsequently encrypting an external disk caused the system to hang and become unresponsive and caused further attempts to authenticate the disk to fail. [26683]

PGP Desktop 10.0.1

General

General improvements have been made to the localized text in the PGP Desktop (Windows and Mac OS X) user interface, including improvements to the security questions for each locale and overall improvements to the PGP BootGuard Japanese IME.

PGP Keys

When choosing between subkeys, the PGP SDK now prefers larger subkeys for signing and encryption when there are two subkeys created at the same time but with different sizes. [21179]

Resolved the issues where changing the passphrase on imported SCKM keys using PGP Desktop for Windows was not working properly. [25560]

Resolved the issue where email could not be encrypted to RSA legacy (v3) keys that were not self-signed. [26050]

PGP Messaging

PGP Notifier now includes the option to block messages as expected when the recipient key can not be found on Mac OS X systems. [25719]

When encrypting using PGP WDE for Mac OS X, if bad blocks are encountered during encryption, the encryption process will continue and those errors are logged to PGP UN in a managed environment. [25556]

When encrypting disks with PGP WDE for Mac OS X, existing RAID volumes no longer cause problems and are now skipped and not encrypted. [25622]

Resolved the issue where the --recover command could not be used in some circumstances to recover data on an encrypted drive. [25425]

PGP Virtual Disk

Resolved the issue where changing the PGP Virtual Disk .pgd file to read-only prevented the mounting of the virtual disk. [25839]

PGP Desktop 10.0

General

General improvements have been made to the localized (German and Japanese) text in the PGP Desktop (Windows and Mac OS X) user interface, including improvements to the security questions for each locale.

General improvements have been made to the stability of PGP Desktop. [20451]

User interface modifications improve support for the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) standards for accessible design.

General improvements made when logging events to the PGP Universal Server, including error messages. [17194, 18432, 18745]

Resolved the issue with a kernel panic on eject on PGP Desktop for Mac OS X. [19060]

The Current Window/Clipboard encryption and decryption features are now supported on Windows Vista 64-bit systems. [19609]

Resolved the issues that caused invalid certificate warnings to be displayed during email enrollment with PGP Desktop for Windows. [20988]

Resolved an issue when uninstalling PGP Desktop for Mac OS X that could cause the Mac OS X system to hang and would stall the uninstall process. Uninstalling should now always complete successfully when selected by the user (provided disks are not encrypted). [21792]

PGP Keys

General improvements made when resetting keys from within PGP Desktop. [18145]

When performing key lookups, verified keys are properly displayed as being verified. [12213]

Trailing and leading whitespaces in email addresses are deleted when using PGP Key Generation Assistant to generate new keys and when adding a new email address to an existing key using the Key Properties dialog box. [17966]

Improvements made for PGP MAPI to work with desktop search products from Microsoft and Google. For additional information and configuration details, see PGP Support KB article 1571 for Microsoft Desktop Search and PGP Support KB article 958 for Google Desktop Search. [18449, 19901]

When mail policy is to encrypt and sign an email message using a smart card, PGP Notes blocks the message if the smart card is not present. [18889]

Revoked keys can no longer be added to PGP NetShare, regardless of the user ID. [14408]

User's keys are not allowed to be removed from a PGP NetShare-protected folder if PGP Universal Server policy specifies that folders must always be encrypted to the user's key. [17649]

Additional Decryption Keys (ADKs) can now be used to remove a PGP NetShare Protected Folder. [19992]

Improvements have been made when displaying PGP NetShare-protected shared folders to avoid listing duplicate shares. [14479]

Resolved the issues occurring in rare instances where incorrect folders were being encrypted with PGP NetShare when folders were deleted and then recreated using the folders with the same name. [20793]

Resolved the compatibility issues that caused repeated PGP notifications to display when unlocking PGP NetShare-protected folders on systems where both PGP Desktop and Kaspersky Antivirus are installed. [21288]

Resolved the compatibility issues that caused repeated PGP notifications to display when unlocking PGP NetShare-protected folders on systems where both PGP Desktop and ZoneAlarm Internet Security are installed. [21300]

Resolved the issue where empty bytes were being added to the end of files being protected with PGP NetShare. [23942]

Resolved an issue with PGP NetShare where encrypting or re-encrypting a large number of folders or data would time out or fail. [25272]

PGP Portable

Disks protected with PGP WDE can now be converted to PGP Portable Disks using the PGP Portable menu options. The creation of the PGP Portable Disk still requires the removable drive to be decrypted first but decryption is now performed automatically. [23980]

Improvements made to PGP WDE so that users are prompted for authentication the USB device is inserted. [14843]

If you are using PGP WDE in Single Sign On mode, changes to your Windows domain password are will not be accepted by PGP WDE if the Windows domain rejects that password change. [15685]

PGP Desktop for Windows is now compatible with the Microsoft Windows backup utility within Windows Vista. [15297]

On PGP Desktop for Mac OS X, you can now encrypt your disk with keys immediately after the keys are created. [17648]

PGP WDE for Mac OS X now prompts for the passphrase when the user initiates the decryption process. [17876, 20608]

Improvements have been made to PGP WDE for Windows for systems using Rescue and Recovery. [18312]

PGP WDE for Windows Command Line now supports the same characters as PGP Desktop for Windows. [18356, 18370]

Resolved upgrade issues by now preventing users from launching PGP Desktop for Windows executables prior to rebooting after the upgrade files have been installed. You must reboot your system after you install an upgrade package in order for PGP Desktop to be upgraded completely. [18362]

Improvements have been made to encrypting, decrypting, and using encrypted removable devices with Oberthur smart cards. [19761, 19872]

PGP WDE for Mac OS X now supports multiple users. [16317, 19223]

PGP WDE for Windows now allows you to encrypt previously encrypted drives after they have been formatted. [14471]

When your PGP Universal Server administrator changes the WDE Admin key, the previous admin key will be removed from the PGP Desktop keyring, in addition to being removed from the access lists of any encrypted disks. [17684]

Additional Decryption Keys (ADKs) are now always added to the user access list for encrypted removable disks in PGP Desktop for Windows. [20016]

Depending on PGP Universal Server policy, you can now cancel or exit creating a single sign-on user in PGP WDE for Windows enrollment. [20190]

In PGP WDE for Windows, the option to create a single sign-on user now behaves correctly when PGP Universal Server policy specifies that boot disks be encrypted automatically. [20380]

Improvements have been made to the PGP Desktop for Mac OS X enrollment assistants displayed during the re-enrollment process. [20352]

PGP WDE for Windows can be used to decrypt removable disks that have been encrypted with PGP WDE for Mac OS X version 10.0. [20408]

In PGP WDE for Windows, you can now view all disks (within the disk list in the PGP Desktop application window). [20436]

The PGP WDE command line option --admin-authorization now works on external disks. [20511]

The PGP WDE command line now works correctly using either the --keyid or --asc options. [20602]

PGP WDE for Mac OS X now properly manages removable drives that have been encrypted with PGP Desktop for Windows. [20589]

When inserting an encrypted removable disk when User Access Control (UAC) is turned off on Windows Vista, you no longer receive a Windows prompt that the disk must be formatted. [14836]

Enhancements have been made to ensure that the correct boot disk is encrypted with PGP WDE for Windows when the PGP Universal Server policy specifies automatic encryption of boot disks. For example, Disk 0 is no longer necessarily the boot disk and in this case the actual boot disk is encrypted regardless of its number. [20675]

General stability improvements have been made when adding users to an encrypted disk using the PGP WDE command line. [20687]

Significant improvements have been made to the robustness of WDRT handling in PGP WDE for Mac OS X, including that the WDRT is not changed unless it can be sent to the server and WDRT usage flags are checked once a minute. [20798]

The -keyid command in PGP WDE command line now works as expected. [21035]

Drives that have been encrypted with Microsoft Windows BitLocker are now detected and cannot be encrypted with PGP WDE for Windows. [21109]

Resolved the issues related to using PGP WDE for Windows on certain netbooks (such as the Dell Inspiron Mini 10 and Mini 12, and the Sony P series) to enable booting when the disk is encrypted. [21116]

PGP WDE now prevents the creation of duplicate users when the user's name and domain are identical. [24444]

PGP Shred

Improvements have been made to PGP Shred UI to correctly identify folders that are read-only and therefore are not shredded. [12559]

PGP Zip

General improvements made to PGP Zip. [13074, 18193, 18298, 18780]

When renaming PGP Zip files from within PGP Desktop, the .pgp file extension is no longer removed from the file name. [6491]

PGP Zip now displays a progress indicator when adding large files. The files are being copied to a temporary directory. Please allow additional time to create a PGP Zip file when adding large files. [14591]

PGP Zip now displays a progress indicator when adding large files. The files are being copied to a temporary directory. Please allow additional time to create a PGP Zip file when adding large files. [13525]

New folder operations can now be cancelled in PGP Zip with PGP Desktop for Windows. [18199]

In PGP Desktop for Windows, error messages are now displayed when there is not enough disk space to create a PGP Self-Decrypting Archive (SDA). [20257]

You can now specify the location of the zip file when creating a PGP Zip on Windows, even if your passphrase is cached. [20342]